Wassily W. Leontief, Leonid V. Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans and J. Richard N. Stone

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21 articles, dating from 1936 to 1976

Contents:

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

PART I WASSILY W. LEONTIEF

Introduction to Part I
Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

1. Wassily Leontief (1936), ‘Quantitative Input and Output Relations in the Economic System of the United States’
2. Wassily Leontief (1946), ‘Wages, Profits and Prices’
3. Wassily Leontief (1953a), ‘Dynamic Analysis’
4. Wassily Leontief (1953b), ‘Domestic Production and Foreign Trade; The American Capital Position Re-examined’
5. Wassily Leontief (1956), ‘Factor Proportions and the Structure of American Trade: Further Theoretical and Empirical Analysis’
6. Wassily Leontief (1970), ‘Environmental Repercussions and the Economic Structure: An Input–Output Approach’

PART II LEONID V. KANTOROVICH

Introduction to Part II
Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

7. L. Kantorovich (1958), ‘On the Translocation of Masses’
8. L.V. Kantorovich (1960), ‘Mathematical Methods of Organizing and Planning Production’
9. Leonid V. Kantorovich (1964), ‘Further Development of Mathematical Methods and the Prospects of Their Application in Economic Planning’
10. Leonid V. Kantorovich (1976), ‘Economic Problems of Scientific and Technical Progress’
11. Leonid V. Kantorovich (1989), ‘Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives – Nobel Memorial Lecture, December 11, 1975’

PART III TJALLING C. KOOPMANS

Introduction to Part III
Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

12. Tjalling Koopmans (1945), ‘Statistical Estimation of Simultaneous Economic Relations’
13. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1947), ‘Measurement Without Theory’
14. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1949), ‘Identification Problems in Economic Model Construction’
15. Tjalling C. Koopmans ([1951] 1971), ‘Analysis of Production as an Efficient Combination of Activities’
16. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1964), ‘Economic Growth at a Maximal Rate’
17. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1965), ‘On the Concept of Optimal Economic Growth’

PART IV J. RICHARD N. STONE

Introduction to Part IV
Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

18. J.E. Meade and Richard Stone (1941), ‘The Construction of Tables of National Income, Expenditure, Savings and Investment’
19. Richard Stone (1945), ‘The Analysis of Market Demand’
20. Richard Stone (1947), ‘Definition and Measurement of the National Income and Related Totals’
21. Richard Stone (1954), ‘Linear Expenditure Systems and Demand Analysis: An Application to the Pattern of British Demand’

Name Index